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Remarkable Women of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney DAWN BOWDEN AM/AC “There appears to be very little written about working class women in history, REMARKABLE especially those in Wales who were politically active” (L M Powell). WOMEN OF May 2018 MERTHYR TYDFIL AND RHYMNEY CONTENTS Preface – Dawn Bowden AM Introduction 1. The women of the Merthyr Rising 1831 2. Our women of myth, of mystery and of legend 3. The women of wealth who cared 4. Merthyr women and the Suffragette movement 5. Women in civic life 6. Women of work 7. The women who teach 8. Women in medicine and science 9. The women of journalism 10. Women against pit closures 11. Women of charity 12. Women of sport 13. The women shaping our times 14. Conclusion PREFACE In May 2016 the people of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney gave me the greatest honour of electing me as the first ever woman to represent them in either the Westminster or Welsh Parliaments. That well over a century had passed since the election of Keir Hardie MP to the House of Commons in 1900 makes a significant statement in itself. Yet it also provides a great reason for me to mark the occasion of the Merthyr Rising Festival 2018 with the publication of this pamphlet. In doing so my hope is to prompt some fresh thinking about how best we should mark, or how we can better celebrate, the Remarkable Women of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. Probably because I am involved in local politics I am reminded of the service of other women and thanks is given in memory of Janice Rowlands who was recognised as being the eyes and ears for Lord Ted Rowlands in the constituency. As no doubt were Margaret (Madge who died of cancer) and Sephora Davies during S O’s long years of service as MP to the constituency. The Merthyr Rising Festival of 2018 falls in the year in which we mark the centenary of women achieving the franchise. It may have been only partial but, nevertheless, it is an important milestone for women and our democracy. During the year we also mark the end of the First World War. That is another momentous event for which we should remember women, not only for their contribution to the war effort, but for also showing such great resilience to continue with their lives after the war. They helped to rebuild our communities, as they are called to do after all wars. To be clear this pamphlet is based on secondary research. I have drawn upon the books, reports and significant research efforts of others to whom all the credit is due and are hopefully acknowledged in my sources. It must also be said that in the age of the internet a short research task of this sort is made much easier by sites such Old Merthyr Tydfil http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/; as were some visits to check texts at Merthyr Tydfil public library. This pamphlet can be downloaded from my website http://www.dawnbowdenam.co.uk/ My thanks to local historian Huw Williams for proof reading this booklet but rest assured any oversights or errors are mine, and mine alone. His wise counsel warmly assured me – if you get it wrong, it can always be corrected and re-printed! I know that in attempting such a project I am sure to have overlooked someone – so apologies in advance. So happy Merthyr Rising 2018, enjoy yourselves, and it is my pleasure to play this small part in marking the festival by telling some of the stories of the Remarkable Women of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney. Dawn Bowden AM Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney INTRODUCTION It is clear to me that the stories of the remarkable women of our community are largely untold. This town, both of our valleys communities, of the Iron Masters, coal and industrial growth, of economic riches and social squalor, of constant waves of immigration, Dic Penderyn and the 1831 uprising, the town that elected Keir Hardie MP, that for so long kept faith in S.O.Davies MP, the town of the boxers, the footballers and growing success in rugby, has in reality made little space, or effort, to celebrate its remarkable women. The town that is named after a woman, “Tudful”, from which the song “Myfanwy” originated and that gave support to the early Suffragettes like Rose Mary Crawshay, that gave a birthplace to Laura Ashley, somehow manages to keep the talent and contribution of its women largely hidden from public view. Is this an oversight or a more deliberate act? In 2018 I feel a responsibility to help close this gap with a fresh eye and a new mission. When I started out on this project the questions running through my mind were: Where are the women of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney in these numerous and prolific local history books? Why do we not find women on the walls of our public buildings or in the public art of our town? What more can we do to tell the remarkable stories of these women? Now beyond some basic research and preliminary conclusions I have not fully answered these questions as that involves more work especially on the Rhymney side of my constituency. Yet as we consider what women have done in, and for, the area, when we consider the part they have played in the life of our communities, we can at least highlight a few stories to help us on the way to a new appreciation of the seemingly forgotten gender of local history. This pamphlet is not chronological. It is organised around themes and offers a short narrative to stimulate debate. GENDER OR CLASS? In setting the scene we can also usefully debate whether this failure to celebrate the achievements of women is a matter of gender or of class? In Volume 26 of the Merthyr Historian Lisa Marie Powell writes on the subject of “Welsh women and liberation from the home: feminist or activist”. She wrote: “There appears to be very little written about working class women in history, especially those in Wales who were politically active”. She writes about the Welsh mam - “but she also had a job to do which involved anything from trade unions to campaigning for better conditions, both domestic and in the workplace”. As others before me have questioned, especially the Women’s Archive of Wales, is it in fact the working class women of Wales whose story has been neglected and remains largely untold? Perhaps in all likelihood it is both. Of course we find it easier to locate the legacy and to tell the story of the Crawshays and Guests as their wealth and social standing makes their history more apparent to us. We can find it in the structures the Ironmasters funded, the artefacts they gathered and the historical remains they left behind. So this pamphlet in a small way looks to help turn that tide and seeks to make us look afresh, and to seek anew, the stories of some of the Remarkable Women of Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney – reflecting not just their gender, but in many cases also their class. So let us discover afresh some of these women. 1. THE WOMEN OF THE MERTHYR RISING 1831 JOAN JENKINS AND MARGARET DAVIES “Women had been very active in the riots, said the judge, and should not be spared because of their sex”. (The Merthyr Rising. Gwyn A Williams 1988). An obvious question to me at the start of this process was to ask about the women of the uprising, and what we know of them? We all know the name of Dic Penderyn and are familiar with the debate that now surrounds his role as he is, arguably, the most famous legacy of the uprising. As for the women, well we can quickly establish the names of two of those involved Joan Jenkins and Margaret Davies as they are in the court proceedings alongside Dic Penderyn, and others charged after the uprising of 1831. This is only natural because women worked in a variety of roles in the ironworks and would have experienced the harsh working conditions of the workplace, as well as the desperate poverty of the home. The punishment the judge gave for their role in the uprising was hard labour. In the recent and excellent musical production - “My Lands Shore” I noticed the way in which this musical interpretation of the incidents surrounding the 1831 Rising were based around the women involved. (In passing I ask aloud why this musical does not have an annual ‘Merthyr season’, or indeed a Welsh language production?) The character Rebecca sings: “I’ve loved you for all you are I fought and starved and I lay in your bed Do you think I’d have wed you if I did not worship the brave, honest fool That is you? What caught my eye in the lyric, predominantly a statement of love, is the writer’s reference “fought and starved”. A recognition, in this musical at least that women were an integral part of the story of struggle and the uprising. They were also involved as result of the rising because many were widowed on that day and then were left with responsibilities after the army crushed the forces of protest. As for the records of that time we find that in his book Gwyn Alf Williams reports Joan Jenkins as being involved in reclaiming property after the iniquitous decisions by the Court of Requests. He describes it as “a planned insurrection” in which “They first ‘enquired’, they identified and located goods which had been taken under legal process by the Court of Requests”.
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